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PHOTOS: 'Worse than I ever imagined'

Greg Gardiner's family has been ranching in Clark County for five generations, having homesteaded in 1885. This week's fires are their ranch's worst natural disaster, killing about 500 cattle, including this young calf. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

Greg Gardiner's family has been ranching in Clark County for five generations, having homesteaded in 1885. This week's fires are their ranch's worst natural disaster, killing about 500 cattle. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

The scorched banks of the Cimarron River, in Clark County. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

A lone cow wanders charred prairie in Clark County. The animal probably wandered in from somewhere else. All of the cattle in that pasture had died from the fire. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

Michael PearceWichita Eagle

Greg Gardiner's family has been ranching in Clark County for five generations, having homesteaded in 1885. This week's fires are their ranch's worst natural disaster, killing about 500 cattle. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

A rarity, live cattle on the area of the Gardiner Ranch that burned in Monday's wildfires in Clark County. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

Phil Messer checks the burned carcass of a coyote that died in Monday's fires in Clark County. "If it was fast enough to kill coyotes, it could kill anything" said Messer. Michael PearceWichita Eagle

Near where many cattle, coyotes and deer had died, a horned-lizard had somehow survived in a burned pasture in Clark County. Michael PearceWichita Eagle